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From: garyo@masscomp.UUCP (Gary Oberbrunner)
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Subject: Preferences structure
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Date: Tue, 6-May-86 19:07:09 EDT
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Summary: How do you get at the active Preferences struct?

It seems that every time I turn around, I'd like to do some neat little
hack having to do with changing the currently active Preferences
structure.  Like for instance an animated pointer, or one that changes
to something else when my window is active, or whatever.

Now I know how to get at the one on disk in :s/system-configuration (or
wherever it is), and I know how to do GetPrefs(how-much-of-it-I-want);
how come there's no equivalent SetPrefs()?  Without that it's
impossible to do any of the number of nifty things that can be done by
dynamically changing Preferences - for instance, I prefer a different
set of colors and a different pointer than my roommates.  Now wouldn't
it be great if we could have TWO system-configuration files, and just
load up whichever one we wanted?  Makes sense to me.

In fact I'd even settle for a crazy roundabout way to get to the
address of the REAL Preferences struct - but it seems there's NO WAY to
do it!  Anyone have any ideas on this topic?  How 'bout it, C-A? Can we
have SetPrefs()?  Would it be so hard?

`Imagination is more important		- Gary Oberbrunner
than knowledge.' - Einstein		...{harvard,allegra}!masscomp!garyo